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168 Ala. 100

Miller v. State

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided July 6, 1910

Supreme Court of Alabama · decided 1910-07-06

<p> Violating Prohibition Law. </p> <p>1. Intoxicating Liquors; Unlancful Sale; Evidence. — The evidence in this case stated and examined and held to show a violation of section 73G3, Code 1907, in aiding in an unlawful sale of intoxicants.</p> <p>2. Appeal and Error; Harmless Error; Evidence. — Where a defendant’s own evidence establishes his guilt any error in rulings on other evidence is harmless.</p> <p>3. Same; Instructions. — Where defendant’s own evidence establishes his guilt, any error in refusing requested instructions is harmless.</p>

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Affirmed · Decided 1910-07-06

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McCLELLAN, J.

¶1The second count of the indictment charged “that before the finding of this indictment Wes Miller sold spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors without a license and contrary to law.” The verdict responded expressly to this count only. Section 7363, Code 1907, provides that a conviction of a violation of that section may be had under an indictment charging in the.form present in the second count quoted a sale, etc., of liquors. — Darrington v. State 162 Ala. 60, 50 South. 396; Rayfield v. State, 167 Ala. 94, 52 South. 833.

¶2*101The testimony of the defendant himself was as follows: “He said (naming two parties) came to him (defendant) at the time mentioned and asked him to get them, a bottle of whisky; that he asked them if it was any harm for him to do so, and that they each told it was not; that he was not selling it, to go and get them a bottle; that they gave him $1.50 and_10 cents for going ; that he did go to Sam McIntosh and get a bottle of whisky and deliver where they told him to put it;” that he had never sold any whisky to any one, nor had he ever delivered to named parties-; that he had no interest in the bottle he got for the parties first above named by the witness, except the dime for going and getting the whisky; that he gave the $1.50 to Sam McIntosh for the bottle.

¶3It is evident that from the defendant’s own statement he was at least guilty of a violation of section 7363, in aiding, etc., in an unlawful sale of prohibited liquors. Hence the court properly gave the general affirmative charge, with hypothesis requested by the solicitor for the state. There were therefore no prejudicial errors to him (whether errors at all it is unnecessay to decide) in rulings on evidence or in refusing-charges to the jury requested by the defendant.

¶4Affirmed.

Dowdell, C. J., and Mayfield and Evans, JJ., concur.
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